I've been making picture books since the summer of '95, with my first published book hitting the shelves in '97. I'd always been a fan of children's illustration, but never considered doing it myself. Before '95 I was really interested in cartooning, and
really wanted to start my own comic book. But my drawings, and stories, were getting simpler and more whimsical. I wanted to make a living off my drawing so I began looking around. It was at this time that I really began to investigate picture books. What struck me then, and what I love about picture books to this day, is that there is no set style. Anything goes. The more unique the style, the better. So I dug in, and started working on some of my own picture book illustration.

I think I made the right choice. Picture books feel very natural to me. I'm not saying that they are easy, or they are not hard work. It just feels right to me to sit down and draw race cars, or zoos or monsters all day.

BOOKS PUBLISHED

Title:

Icky Ricky #1: Toilet Paper Mummy

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013

Title:

Icky Ricky #2: The End of the World

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013

Title:

Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2011

Awards:

*Chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 10 best children's graphic novels for 2012

Title:

The Egg of Misery (Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian)

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2012

* Optioned for a TV Series by Radical Sheep Productions
* A Bank Street Best Book of 2013

Title:

The Birthday Party of Dread (Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian)

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2012

Title:

My Dog Jack is Fat

Author:

Eve Bunting

Publisher:

Marshall Cevendish, 2011

Title:

Furious George Goes Bananas

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2010

IRA/CBC Children’s Choices List 2011

Title:

The Runaway Mummy

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2009

Three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list

Children's Indie Next List, Fall 2009

Title:

Brooms Are For Flying!

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

quare Fish, 2009

Title:

Goodnight Goon

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2008

Fall 2009 Children's Indie Next List

IRA-CBC Children’s Choice, 2009

Nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, two weeks #1

Title:

You Can Do Anything, Daddy!

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2007

Title:

Jack the Builder

Author:

Stuart J. Murphy

Publisher:

HarperCollins, 2006

Title:

Truck Duck

Author:

Michael Rex

Publisher:

Putnam Juvenile, 2006

One of the 2004 Baker's Dozen: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.